Kristen Walker wrote:

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Kristen, please stay on the mailing list you started the thread. Don't e-mail me solely personally.

Sorry about that.

Again: Please, use your "Reply to all" button!

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Kristen Walker wrote:

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Thanks for your help. I can't seem to be able to start the server with the -d flag. Here is what I tried:

su root -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535

I also tried:

su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd

And it complains in both cases that -d is an invalid option.

Using -d works for me. Which version of OpenLDAP is this?

Can you post any output it produces?

I am using openldap-2.3.39 on Ubuntu.

Here is the output:

su root -d 65535 -c /usr/local/libexec/slapd su: invalid option -- d Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Obviously this is wrong since you use option -d for the su command.

How about doing "su -" just to get root and then use

/usr/local/libexec/slapd -d 65535 [..other needed args..]

You also have to check your syslog and which user is running slapd normally.

Ciao, Michael.